WASHINGTON?A fired auditor has told congressional investigators that Enron and its accounting firm share the blame for the partnership arrangements that helped drive the energy giant into bankruptcy.

Former Arthur Andersen auditor David Duncan “did not point the finger at Enron; it was more of?’we made mistakes,'” Rep. Jim Greenwood, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said Monday.

Duncan “did not sit there and say ‘Enron hid all this information from us and therefore we couldn’t count right,'” said Greenwood, R-Pa.

Fired over the destruction of thousands of Enron-related documents, Duncan underwent questioning by congressional investigators Wednesday about Enron’s partnerships.

For several years, the partnerships kept hundreds of millions of dollars of debt off the company’s books.